Team:British Columbia

Blasting Away Biofilms

To disperse ''Staphylococcus aureus'' biofilms, our team is working to express an endogenous bacteriophage and biofilm matrix-degrading enzyme DspB under the control of the Agr quorum-sensing system.

And The Award Goes To...

Here's a list of the things we've accomplished according to iGEM judging and awards criteria. "I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow" - Benicio Del Toro, Best Supporting Actor.

It's Human!

Stop by our human practices section! What to see what people on the streets think about synthetic biology? We have quirky promoter maps, a live forum and a fabulous art gallery!

The Team

Our team is composed of 9 undergraduate students, 2 graduate advisors and 2 faculty advisors. We are a diverse team from various disciplines including Pharmacology, Life Sciences, Physiology, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Engineering, Engineering Physics and Computer Science.

iGEM

The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a set of biological parts from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Over the summer, the teams use these parts and new parts of their own to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. Through this experience, undergraduate students gain insight into the research process of searching out information and protocols to come up with their own novel project (not to mention all the trouble-shooting expertise gained!). Graduate student advisors also get a taste of what it feels like to be a principal investigator or lab technician in terms of providing for and guiding the undergraduate students. Finally, in November, hundreds of iGEM teams gather at MIT to compete at the annual Jamboree!

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